2,000-year-old Roman mosaic unearthed at ancient city of Tralleis in western Türkiye

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The Museum of Aquincum, in Budapest, has been exhibiting since July 2026 sixteen silicone portraits modelled after the skulls of the inhabitants of this ancient Roman city, who died between the 1st and the 4th centuries. Reconstitute a face from a bone comes usually from the judicial portrait-robot, never from the gallery of incarnate characters. Aquincum's faces push the method to the extreme, with real hair, lashes and tints deduced from ancie…